Deuce Discussion #2: Reality TV, Misunderstood Genre?

In Today's DD, Arfeo tackles that most controversial of topics: reality television. What are his thoughts on the medium? Read on.

I’m with you, I hate reality TV. Personally, I would rather receive a redundant circumcision than watch an episode of The Bachelor. It’s all starting to run together for me now. People trapped on an island, eating bat feces to find their true millionaire love while spending lifelines on trivia questions as to where in the world they must travel next in order to see what really happens when people start getting real.

But if we think about it, this odium we feel towards that genre of television is only as limited as the definition we give it. For isn’t pornography and sports simply reality television? And who among you can cast the first stone if they are included? Dead silence as I suspected. So let us agree to say this, not all reality TV is bad. Just most of it.